One of the best singing competition shows when it was on, with some seriously talented performers. A cappella singing to modern music with vocally infused instrumentation. If you want an idea of what wins on this show, Google Pentatonix. Wondering if it will be the same judges and host given there will be a 2 year gap between show runs.

EyeballKid:Can't check at work, but did my buying the last Ben Folds Five album spare him embarrassing himself on a game show again?

No word in the article if the judges are the same. It mentions that Nick Lachey hosted it but not even sure if that means he's coming back either. My guess is they'll use as much of the original format as they can though. It worked well as a holiday week filler but failed going against Dancing With The Stars.

FeedTheCollapse:even though the Sing-Off contestants were generally more talented than anyone on American idol, The Voice, etc., the show was much more farking annoying. So goddamn cheesy.

Nick Lachey was a bad pun machine but you have to blame the writers (he just doesn't seem that quick) and while Nicole was nice to look at the first couple years, she was as bad as Paula Abdul on Idol with nothing but platitudes and praise. Sara Bareilles was a great replacement as far as judging ability in Season 3 and the cheese factor diminished a bit.

revman64:FeedTheCollapse: even though the Sing-Off contestants were generally more talented than anyone on American idol, The Voice, etc., the show was much more farking annoying. So goddamn cheesy.

Nick Lachey was a bad pun machine but you have to blame the writers (he just doesn't seem that quick) and while Nicole was nice to look at the first couple years, she was as bad as Paula Abdul on Idol with nothing but platitudes and praise. Sara Bareilles was a great replacement as far as judging ability in Season 3 and the cheese factor diminished a bit.

no, the music as a whole was cheesy. It was like a show created specifically for every Glee club douchebag I knew in HS that tried to impress people by singing Billy Joel's "the Longest Time." It was unwatchable and terrible.

FeedTheCollapse:revman64: FeedTheCollapse: even though the Sing-Off contestants were generally more talented than anyone on American idol, The Voice, etc., the show was much more farking annoying. So goddamn cheesy.

Nick Lachey was a bad pun machine but you have to blame the writers (he just doesn't seem that quick) and while Nicole was nice to look at the first couple years, she was as bad as Paula Abdul on Idol with nothing but platitudes and praise. Sara Bareilles was a great replacement as far as judging ability in Season 3 and the cheese factor diminished a bit.

no, the music as a whole was cheesy. It was like a show created specifically for every Glee club douchebag I knew in HS that tried to impress people by singing Billy Joel's "the Longest Time." It was unwatchable and terrible.

I must have been one of those douchebags then because I liked the music. It was mostly some of today's most popular music and pop classics from the past transformed into a cappella. No accounting for taste, right?

fusillade762:rugman11: Mugato: show me: SNL is still pretty good occasionally, but their primetime lineup just ain't what it used to be.

Oh right, I guess I watch SNL on occasion so I take that back.

If it were "Sign off" as some of you said, then that scene in Poltergeist would make sense to the youngsters.

I'm pretty sure SNL has been their most watched show most weeks this spring. A show that airs at 11:30 EST on Saturday night has been the most watched show on NBC. Pathetic.

Ratings. Worse. Than UNIVISION. It can't be said enough.

Losing to Univision occasionally isn't that crazy. It was actually the #3 network last night, ahead of NBC, ABC, and the CW (who were all mostly in repeats). Losing to them for an entire month, though, is pretty bad.

DoucheBaggerson:NBC Universal has the highest rated cable network (USA) with original programming. Why not take those good programs and move them to NBC. Or greenlight the dramas for USA and air them on NBC.

Because the USA dramas would get roughly the same ratings on NBC as they do on USA, which means they would be horrible failures for network primetime and be canceled.

Ratings that keep a cable show afloat would kill any network show in about three weeks.

Considering how shiatty NBC's programming is, bringing back Super Train would be a step in the right direction (and would probably outperform 2/3 of the crap showing now). A good mini-series like they did in the 70's/80's wouldn't hurt either (Something Is Out There, Shogun, etc).

/i vote for Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse and putting George Newman in charge//can't be any worse than what they have now

FirstNationalBastard:DoucheBaggerson: NBC Universal has the highest rated cable network (USA) with original programming. Why not take those good programs and move them to NBC. Or greenlight the dramas for USA and air them on NBC.

Because the USA dramas would get roughly the same ratings on NBC as they do on USA, which means they would be horrible failures for network primetime and be canceled.

Ratings that keep a cable show afloat would kill any network show in about three weeks.

Yeah, the best shows on USA draw between 1.0-1.2, which is what the shows currently killing NBC are pulling already. I know NBC tried this a few years ago (I believe during the writers' strike) with Psych and Merlin, but it didn't really work.